Watchmen

New York: DC Comics / Graphitti Designs, 1989. First edition. Fine. First edition in book form, first printing. Association copy signed by Alan Moore on the title page, and inscribed to long-time Image Comics employee and friend of Spawn creator Todd Macfarlane Terence Fitzgerald, "with thanks for being such a pleasure to work with." Moore wrote the eighth issue of Spawn, a monthly comic book featuring an eponymous antihero who goes to hell and back. The inscribee has a character named after him in the Spawn universe named Tony Fitzgerald.Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's black bonded leather lettered in gilt, in matching slipcase. Fine in a Fine slipcase, (truncated) lightly shelf-worn. The slipcased limited edition of one of perhaps the most famous, critically-acclaimed graphic novel ever written, with 48 pages of material not found in the original comic books. The inspiration for the 2009 film and, more loosely, the 2019 television show. Writer Alan Moore's signature is quite uncommon, especially with a personal inscription. (Inventory #: 140947686)